Guessing that the HN crowd has a fair amount of people that read Yarvins blog back in the day. Whats it like seeing his ideas finally being applied or worked on

Guessing that the HN crowd has a fair amount of people that read Yarvins blog back in the day. Whats it like seeing his ideas finally being applied or worked on? Did Yarvin just read Snow Crash and think that was a great society?